(17 Jun 2025)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Nairobi, Kenya – 17 June 2025
1. Various of protesters marching and chanting anti-government slogans
2. Various of police in trucks firing tear gas canisters to disperse protesters
3. Mid shot of man throwing stones as police advance
4. Wide of street full of tear gas
5. Various of police
6. Various of protesters chasing away counter-protesters
7. Various of protesters next to bike on fire
8. SOUNDBITE (Kiswahili) Milton Otieno, protester:
“As you can see there is a bike that has been set on fire behind me. It belongs to some goons who had been sent to disrupt the protest and they had tear gas. But they have not succeeded. We are telling ‘Kasongo’ (referring to Kenyan President William Ruto) to reform his government or we shall not accept his rule. We are the majority.”
9. Various of protesters
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Shakira Wafula, activist:
“Personally, I wish a lot of people, especially those who have been paid to disrupt this protest to understand that we are fighting for justice and it affects every one of us, including them. At some point it will be their time for them to be attacked by the police and brutalized and we are saying, before that happens, let us demand that there is not just reforms in the police, let the entire institution be remade from the ground up.”
11. Various of police at protest
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Felix Nyadua, Protester:
“What we find a big challenge, as you can see, there are fellow youth who have been given money to come and disrupt the demonstration we have today, but we are condemning that with a big order, with a high voice. So, we are still calling the youths across the nation, let us come. Nobody will speak for us when we are silent. We’ll keep on losing more life.”
13. Mid of police officers
14. Various of police aircraft hovering over protest
STORYLINE:
A demonstration over the death of blogger Albert Ojwang in police custody turned violent Tuesday with police in riot gear facing protesters in downtown Nairobi, Kenya.
Several demonstrators were injured and property destroyed.
Demonstrators said ‘goons’ sent by the government to disrupt the peaceful protests were collaborating with the police to unleash violence in the East African capital.
AP footage showed people in civilian clothes standing alongside police officers and throwing rocks towards protesters.
Violent clashes between demonstrators, armed with stones, and counter protesters on motorbikes wielding sticks and whips culminated in various motorcycles being torched and people being injured.
Activist Shakira Wafula said she wanted the counter-protesters to understand that they too were at risk and called on them to unite with the protest movement.
“At some point it will be their time to be attacked by the police and brutalized and we are saying, before that happens, let us demand that there is not just reforms in the police, let the entire institution be remade from the ground up,” she said.
An investigation continues into the death of Ojwang, who was accused of defaming Deputy Inspector General Eliud Langat, Kenya’s deputy police chief, who stepped aside Monday but failed to acknowledge he was the complainant.
Ojwang was arrested June 6 in western Kenya and driven 400 kilometers (248 miles) to Nairobi for publishing what police said was “false information” on social media.
He was found dead two days later at the Central Police Station and police attributed his death to “hitting his head against the cell wall.”
A pathology report refuted the police account.
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